Trotting Soles in Metro Travel

‘Why on earth are you going there?’

This was the question friends asked when I told them I was travelling to Uzbekistan, a former Soviet republic sandwiched between Russia, China, and a  host of fellow ‘Stans’.

I had many answers, most built on the country’s Silk Road history and the ancient mystique of a place that was Central Asia’s cradle of culture for more than two millennia.

Read all about Metro journalist Alice Murphy’s trip to Uzbekistan , were she travelled on a trip organised by Trotting Soles .

 

 

 

 

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